Improvement in curry-combs



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cYEUS w. SALADEE, 0E WASHINGTON, DISTRICT 0E COLUMBIA, ASSIeNoE oE oNE-EALE EIS EIGHT To I.; DoBeINS, or EEIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN cuRR-v-coMes.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,182, dated February 8, 1876; application filed l A .December 16, 1875.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known l,that I, GYRUS W. SALADEE, of Washington city, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain Improvements4 in Handles to Curry-Combs, of which the follow# ing is a specification, embodying my said invention:

To enable others skilled in the art'to make and use my invention, I herewith submit the v be attained in this my present invention is not new, as evidence Letters Patent issued to Ine, No. 46,710, dated March 7, 1865, for improvement in curry-comb. In the specification of Said patent I have stated that the nature of my invention consists in providing' the curryco1nb with an arched. back or frame, to which is connected the'ordinary handle, placed at right angles with theteeth, and by which is gained the desirable advantage of twoseparate ways of grasping the comb, viz:

The comb may be used, first', by graspingthe ordinary handle C, Fig. 1; or, when that is not desirable, the'` comb may be grasped immediately over the top of the same.77 And my vclaim in Said patent is worded as follows, viz:

The arched frame or b ack A A A1 A2 of the curry-comb, in combination with the handle C G. In thispatent above referred to I have secured, broadly, the principle of attachingv an arched back to the top of the teeth-plates,

n' and combining Withsuch b ack the ordinary handle, and thereby attain exactly the same object Securedvin this my 4present invention.

But to prevent the possibility of confounding the device herein described and claimedwith the one ,I have patented, as aforesaid, it is 4only necessary to state, in this connection,

that, while the object sought to be attained in both instancesis one and. the same, it is attained in my present invention upon a radically-different principle from the one embraced in my former invention, patented as aforesaid, in that of abandoning entirely the use of an arched back or frame over the top of the comb, or, in any proper sense, combining the handle directly with, and as a part 0f, such back or frame, for I attain the desirable object of securing the two separate ways of grasping the comb, as aforesaid, by the peculiar formation of the handle itself, and in no case dependent upon the sha'pe, iormation, o r v arrangement of the back or .frame to which the teeth of the comb are secured 5 and this device is equally applicable .to all and every kind or pattern of 'comb now generally manufactured. And that there may be no seeming conflict between this invention and that covered by my former patent, hereinbet'ore -referred to, I do, by these vpresents,fully and entirely disclaim the use of an arched back or frame combined with the ordinaryhandle o'f the comb, as Such device is no part of my present' invention.

- In the drawings,Figure lis aside elevation,

and' Fig. 2'is al plan view, of a comb, Showing 'the wire modification of the improved handle in. position upon the comb. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation, with the Wires cut 01'1c where they are secured to the thumb-standard, and show- -ing the latter in section, with the staple pass-V ing down through the same, holdingY the wires in position and Fig. 4 is a front elevation'of the comb. Fig. 5 is a front elevation, and

Fig. 6 a plan view, of the second modificationof my invention.

'In the wire modication Seen in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, the ends of the wire entering the yhandle A are brought together,'as per th'edotted lines P, (See Fig. 2,) and firmly driven into the handle. After passing the staple H,

by which the'wires are rmly held on the topv of the thumb-standard I, as seen in Figs. 2 and v 3, theyv diverge from each other, as at B, and `then meet again, and are held together by the loop H', when the ends take a short turn in opposite directions, and forming the T'or cross head C C, when the extreme outer ends 2' mais@ of` the wire are bent down and back into the sockets N and N, as is clearly shown in Figs. l, 2, and 4.

The thumbstandard I may be turned up out of hard Wood, spool shape, or cast of metal in the shape seen in the drawings.

this point. This substantially completes this modification of my invention.

The other modification of my invention (seen in Figs. 5 and 6) consists in casting the shank P, extension B, and cross-head C C in one piece, and from any pattern which the fancy may suggest. In this case the outer ends of the cross-head are bent down and made to form the feet J and J, and these are secured to the front edge of the back or frame of the comb by rivets J', as seen in the front elevation,'Fig.` 5, and the handle is secured to the opposite or rear edge of the back by a single rivet passing down through the thumb-standard I, in place of the staple H seen in the other modification.

In order to-vary the style, as well as to produce a cheaper grade of comb on the last-described modiiication of my invention, I shall discard the Wooden handle A, and so form the shank P in Fig. 6 that it shall present a metallic handle, A, as seen Fig. 7, and thus form the handle A, extension B, and cross-head C C from one piece of metal or casting.

I claim as my invention- 1. rIhe extended shank B of the handle and the handle cross-head C C, secured, respectively, to the rear con1b-bar D and the side bars K, as described, and these parts constructedl substantially as herein set forth.

2. The thumb-standard I and the fastening H for securing the extended shank B to the rear comb-bar, constructed Vsubstantially as herein set forth.

3. The handle A, extended shank B, and cross-head C C, constructed and adapted for use substantially as and for' the `purpose set forth.

GYRUS W. SALADEE. 

